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Nollywood actor, Sola Fosudo condemns the Industry in new interview...

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Veteran Nollywood actor, Sola Fosudo, in a chat with Saturday Beats,
said that he rarely watches Nollywood movies because most of the films
are not original.

The actor said that most of the movies churned out are
“cheap and distasteful imitation of foreign movies adapted to suit
Nigerian viewers.”

He said, “I don’t watch Nollywood movies
anymore because most of them are re-packaged stories. Sometimes, they
see an interesting foreign movie and they try to localise it but in the
process, they bastardise the whole thing. You will find out that most of
the stories are not original.”

The thespian said that the problem with
the industry is that it is being run by “unprofessional” people who feel
they know it all.

“If people who are not trained in a
particular trade populate the trade, there would be development problem.
But if they come as supporting personnel and allow the trained people
take the centre stage, then development and growth would be integrated.
For instance, in the banking industry, most of the people there studied
related courses that would make them function properly in their duties.
If there are other people coming, like those who studied Geography,
Yoruba, etc, they would not allow them to fill some positions. They
would come in as supporting personnel and begin to get in-house training
which would eventually make them masters of their craft if they want to
remain in the industry.

“But here, you find some people come in
overnight and they become star actors, some of them would become
directors and producers within six months. The quality of what they
bring out would be questionable. If you get adequate training, you would
understand what you are doing because you have studied it in theory so
when you want to apply it, it would be done based on knowledge not on
intuition or penchant. There is a difference between trained actors and
the untrained ones,” Fosudo said.